Combined refrigerator and water-cooler.



No. 672,437. Patented Apr. 23, l90l. J. E. BIMM. COMBINED BEFBIGEBATUR AND WATER COULER;

(Application filed Juile 22, 1900.)

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JOSEPH E. BIMM, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

COM BIN ED REFRIGERATOR AND WATER-'COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,437, dated April 23, I901.

Application filed June 22, i900. Serial No. 21,143. iNo modehi To all whom it may c ncern: from the ice-chamber into the refrigerator Be it known that I, JOSEPH E. BIMM, a citiproper. zen of the United States, residing at Dayton, The lower chamber 13 is the chamber for the 55 in the county of Montgomery and State of filtered water, and it is connected, through 5 Ohio, have in vented certain new and useful suitable pipes, to a filter d, placed on the out- Improvements in a Combined.Refrigerator, side of the refrigerator. The preferable con- Water-Cooler, and Filter, of which the folnection for this filteris shown in Figs. 1 and 4c lowing is a specification. and it is arranged as follows: A valve-cham- 60 My invention relates toimprovementsin waber eis placed on the outside of the refrigeraio tor-coolers and filters; and it consists in comtor on a line with or slightly below the bot bining the same with an ordinary refrigerator, tom of the water-chamber b Extending upby means of which therefrigerator may be emwardly from this valve-chamber is a standployed for cooling the water which is stored pipe provided atthe top with a float-reser- 6 within the refrigerator. voir 6 having therein a float 6 This float My invention consists in the constructions is connected by a stem projectingdownwardly and combinations of parts hereinafter dethrough the stand-pipe to a valve 6', which scribed and claimed. closes the stand-pipe from the valve-chamber In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a c. There extend into this stand-pipe two con- 70 sectional view of a refrigerator in which myinduits e and e. The lower conduit e furnishes 2o vention is shown applied. Fig. 2 is a transthe ingress and egress for the water to the verse sectionalview showing the bottom of the cooling-chamber. The pipe 6 furnishes the ice or drip chamber. Fig. 3 is a sectional eleoutlet for the air and enters the cooling-chamvation showing a slightly-modified construcher at the top. The discharge-pipe cl from 75 tion. Fig. 4 is a sectional view showingin dethe filter cl enters the valve-cham her 6 at the tail the arrangement ofthesupply,discharge, bottom. An ordinary faucet e enters the and air valves as employed in the construcvalve chamber from the side at a point below tion shown in Fig. 1. the valve 6. This arrangement is preferably Like parts are represented by similar letfor what is known as a pressure-filter. 8o ters of reference in the several views. The water from the filter d enters the valve- 0 In the drawings, at represents an ordinary chamber 6 and passes the valve 6 through the refrigerator having an ice-chamber Z). This conduit 6 into the cooling-chamber, the air ice-chamber is preferably supported from the escaping through the vent e and the floatmain body of the refrigerator to give circulatreservoir 6 When the cooling-chamber be- 85 ing-passages b about the same. It is divided comes filled, the water in the stand-pipe raises 5 into several compartments, the upper comthe float and shuts ofi the valve 6 thus prepartment l) for the ice, which contains a false venting a further supply of water entering the bottom b and a lower compartment which cooling-chamber. If the faucet e is opened, containsaclosed compartment b that-is, one the pressure is released from the bottom of 0 entirely separated from the other intermedithe valve, the valve drops down, and the water ate compartment 1), immediately above the is drawn from the cooling-chamber. Sublower compartment and between the false stantially the same arrangement is shown in bottom I) and the real bottom b of the ice- Fig. 3, except that the filter-pipe d and the chamber. There is extended through the air-valve e are shown as separate connec- 95 lower chamber and into the intermediate tions. In this case any ordinary float-valve chamber b an opening b the sides of which is used for the air-valve e which will permit project into theintermediate chamber. This the escape of the air and prevent the escape opening o furnishes the double purpose of of the water. permitting the drip from the ice-chamber to Below the water-cooling chamber b and the I03 overflow the projecting edges and trickle opening I) there is preferably placed a dripdown the sides thereof, so as to more thorpan 12 which catches the drip and carries it oughly take up the heat from the lower chamoff through any suitable pipe connection 1)". her 19 and also to permit acirculation of air This is preferably discharged into a wastebasin Z7 which is placed below the faucet 6 This drip-pan is preferably made larger than the bottom of the ice-chamber, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to leave an air-space between the sides of the chamber and the drip-pan, so thatthe air can circulate from the ice-chamber through the opening b into the refrigeratingchamber, the sides of the drip-pan being sufficient to prevent the drip from overflowing. It will be seen that by this construction a water-cooling chamber is formed which is substantially surrounded by the cold water from the ice. The npwardly-projecting sides of the opening 19 keeps a sheet. of cold water on top of the cooling-chamber. This Water overflowing the sides and passing down through the opening furnishes a sheet of cold water which passes through the body of the filtered water in the cooling-chamber. At the same time a complete circulation is permitted in the refrigerator proper and the drip from the ice carried off, so as not to interfere with the refrigeration.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination with the refrigerator, the iceechamber having a false bottom, a cooling-chamber below said ice-chain ber having a central opening extending into said ice-chamber and provided with projecting sides to form a reservoir above said cooling-chamber,a drippan under said central opening, a filter connected to said cooling-chamber, and an airvalve also connected near the top of said cooling-chamber, substantially as specified.

2. The combination. with the ice-chamber, the cooling-chamber formed therein having a central opening with projecting sides, the drip-pan under said opening, the independent air and water connections from said coolingchamber to a stand-pipe on the outside of said refrigerator, and a float-valve in said stand-pipe, and a filtering connection below said float-valve, and a faucet also connected below said float-valve, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination with the filter and refrigerator as described, of an ice-chamber, a cooling-chamber with a central opening provided with projecting sides to form a reservoir in the bottom of said ice-chamber above said coolingchamber, a false bottom to receive the ice in said ice-chamber, a drip-pan under said central opening, an inlet to said cooling-chamber from said filter, an outlet from said cooling-chamber having a floatvalve to limit the intake from said filter and a discharge-faucet, substantially as specified. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of June, A. D. 1900.

JOSEPH E. BIMM. Witnesses:

T. J. ELLEFF, THOMAS B. HERRMAN. 

